6.3 RW: Literal comprehension and Poetry

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The following text is from Georgia Douglas Johnson's 1922 poem ''Youth."

The dew is on the grasses, dear, The blush is on the rose,

And swift across our dial-youth, A shifting shadow goes.

The primrose moments, lush with bliss, Exhale and fade away,

Life may renew the Autumn time, But nevermore the May!
According to the text, in what way is youth unlike the autumn of life?

• A) It is untouched by shadows.

• B) It cannot be extended.

• C) It remains perpetually fresh.

• D) It is full of bliss.

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• A) Mrs. Kearney had certain standards regarding a potential husband.”

• B) “Mrs. Kearney’s desperation to marry was obvious to those around her.

• C) Mrs. Kearney was criticized for treating potential suitors rudely.

• D) Mrs. Kearney sometimes disapproved of the behavior of her would-be suitors.

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“John G.” is a 1918 short story by Katherine Mayo. In the story, the narrator describes a horse named John G. as dependable and well-behaved: __________.

Which quotation from “John G.” most effectively illustrates the claim?”

• A) “In the time that goes to saddling a horse, the detail rode into the storm, First Sergeant Price on John G., leading.”

• B) “Delicately, nervously, John G. set his feet, step by step, till he had reached the centre of the second plank.”

• C) “John G., on that diluvian night, was twenty-two years old, and still every whit as clean-limbed, alert, and plucky as his salad days had seen him.”

• D) “And John G. is a gentleman and a soldier, every inch of him. Horse-show judges have affixed their seal to the self-evident fact by the sign of the blue ribbon, but the best proof lies in the personal knowledge of “A” Troop, soundly built on twelve years’ brotherhood.”

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• A) Dorian is distracted by the beauty of the painting.

• B) Dorian believes that what Hallward is saying is unimportant.

• C) Dorian does not recognize his own image.

• D) Dorian is prone to embarrassment.

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